HP Contract Job Trends in London

HP
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring knowledge or experience of HP products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited HP over the 6 months leading up to 1 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within Hewlett-Packard Company.

6 months to
1 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 348 280 307
Rank change year-on-year -68 +27 +57
Contract jobs citing HP 64 65 84
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.38% 0.51% 0.46%
As % of the Vendors category 0.86% 1.14% 1.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 40 61
10th Percentile £154 £168 £143
25th Percentile £168 £325 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £306 £525 £350
Median % change year-on-year -41.71% +50.00% -26.32%
75th Percentile £438 £600 £494
90th Percentile £500 £1,080 £594
England median daily rate £210 £425 £350
% change year-on-year -50.59% +21.43% -17.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 4 1
10th Percentile £18.07 £20.09 -
25th Percentile £19.85 £23.03 -
Median hourly rate £23.71 £24.66 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.86% +23.30% -4.76%
75th Percentile £25.77 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £20.09 £24.18 £24.00
% change year-on-year -16.91% +0.75% +26.78%

All Vendors
London

HP falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 7,448 5,693 7,267
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 44.09% 45.09% 40.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,925 3,739 4,974
10th Percentile £350 £325 £280
25th Percentile £425 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £763 £763
England median daily rate £500 £525 £515
% change year-on-year -4.76% +1.94% -4.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 112 87 144
10th Percentile £18.01 £17.58 £13.55
25th Percentile £20.96 £23.80 £16.97
Median hourly rate £27.61 £29.07 £24.93
Median % change year-on-year -5.04% +16.62% -3.04%
75th Percentile £41.75 £55.50 £41.25
90th Percentile £67.26 £70.75 £71.25
England median hourly rate £25.77 £29.07 £24.00
% change year-on-year -11.35% +21.13% -33.33%

HP
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing HP relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

HP job vacancy trend in London

HP
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing HP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing HP

HP
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing HP in London over the 6 months to 1 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for HP in London

HP
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing HP.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing HP

HP
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing HP within the London region over the 6 months to 1 April 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London -20 7 £500 +8.11% 8
West London -19 4 £475 +86.27% 1
HP
England

HP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 4 (6.25%) Confluence
2 2 (3.13%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.56%) SAS
3 1 (1.56%) SharePoint
Applications
1 11 (17.19%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.56%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (9.38%) BASE24
2 5 (7.81%) Payment Gateway
2 5 (7.81%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (1.56%) PORTIA
3 1 (1.56%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (1.56%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 19 (29.69%) Microsoft 365
2 14 (21.88%) Azure
3 7 (10.94%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (7.81%) AWS
5 3 (4.69%) GCP
6 1 (1.56%) Cloudflare
6 1 (1.56%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.56%) Rubrik
6 1 (1.56%) Tricentis Tosca
6 1 (1.56%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 16 (25.00%) Wireless
2 4 (6.25%) DNS
2 4 (6.25%) Firewall
3 2 (3.13%) DHCP
3 2 (3.13%) VPN
4 1 (1.56%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (1.56%) FTP
4 1 (1.56%) IPsec
4 1 (1.56%) iSCSI
4 1 (1.56%) NetScaler
4 1 (1.56%) SMTP
4 1 (1.56%) SSL
4 1 (1.56%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (9.38%) NonStop SQL
2 4 (6.25%) OLTP
3 2 (3.13%) Big Data
3 2 (3.13%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.56%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.56%) Apache Hive
4 1 (1.56%) Base SAS
4 1 (1.56%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
4 1 (1.56%) Hadoop
4 1 (1.56%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (1.56%) SAP BW
4 1 (1.56%) SAS Data Integration Studio
4 1 (1.56%) SAS Enterprise Guide
4 1 (1.56%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 13 (20.31%) JIRA
2 8 (12.50%) Selenium
3 5 (7.81%) TestRail
4 3 (4.69%) Cypress.io
4 3 (4.69%) Zephyr
5 1 (1.56%) Appium
5 1 (1.56%) JMeter
5 1 (1.56%) LoadRunner
5 1 (1.56%) NUnit
5 1 (1.56%) Postman
5 1 (1.56%) REST Assured
5 1 (1.56%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (1.56%) SpecFlow
5 1 (1.56%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (1.56%) TestDirector
5 1 (1.56%) Visual Studio
5 1 (1.56%) Visual Studio Coded UI
General
1 20 (31.25%) Banking
2 15 (23.44%) Finance
3 12 (18.75%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (18.75%) Social Skills
4 8 (12.50%) Organisational Skills
5 7 (10.94%) Public Sector
6 4 (6.25%) Electronics
6 4 (6.25%) Manufacturing
6 4 (6.25%) Marketing
6 4 (6.25%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.56%) Billing
7 1 (1.56%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.56%) Law
7 1 (1.56%) Legal
Job Titles
1 12 (18.75%) Break Fix Engineer
2 10 (15.63%) IT Support
2 10 (15.63%) Support Engineer
3 9 (14.06%) IT Engineer
4 8 (12.50%) Field Engineer
5 7 (10.94%) Data Centre Engineer
5 7 (10.94%) Developer
6 6 (9.38%) Desktop Support
6 6 (9.38%) IT Support Engineer
6 6 (9.38%) Server Engineer
7 5 (7.81%) Field Support Engineer
7 5 (7.81%) Hardware Engineer
7 5 (7.81%) Test Manager
8 4 (6.25%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
8 4 (6.25%) 2nd Line Support
8 4 (6.25%) Analyst
8 4 (6.25%) Junior
8 4 (6.25%) SC Cleared Desktop Support
8 4 (6.25%) Server Support
8 4 (6.25%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (6.25%) REST
2 1 (1.56%) Microsoft Graph
2 1 (1.56%) Middleware
2 1 (1.56%) Playwright
2 1 (1.56%) SAP Fiori
2 1 (1.56%) Web Services
2 1 (1.56%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 19 (29.69%) Data Centre
2 6 (9.38%) Driving Licence
2 6 (9.38%) Tandem
3 5 (7.81%) EMV
4 4 (6.25%) Management Information System
4 4 (6.25%) Mobile App
5 3 (4.69%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (4.69%) Product Ownership
6 2 (3.13%) Clustering
6 2 (3.13%) PKI
7 1 (1.56%) APACS
7 1 (1.56%) Celerra
7 1 (1.56%) Cloud Native
7 1 (1.56%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.56%) EMC Centera
7 1 (1.56%) IBM XIV
7 1 (1.56%) Smartphone
7 1 (1.56%) Symmetrix
7 1 (1.56%) Symmetrix DMX
7 1 (1.56%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 18 (28.13%) Mac OS
2 17 (26.56%) Android
3 14 (21.88%) Windows
4 10 (15.63%) Windows 10
5 4 (6.25%) Windows Server
6 1 (1.56%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (28.13%) Customer Service
2 17 (26.56%) Break/Fix
3 14 (21.88%) Problem-Solving
4 12 (18.75%) Test Automation
5 11 (17.19%) Agile
5 11 (17.19%) Test Management
5 11 (17.19%) User Acceptance Testing
6 10 (15.63%) End-to-End Testing
7 8 (12.50%) DevOps
7 8 (12.50%) ITSM
7 8 (12.50%) Test Strategy
8 7 (10.94%) Integration Testing
8 7 (10.94%) Time Management
8 7 (10.94%) Waterfall
9 6 (9.38%) Continuous Improvement
9 6 (9.38%) Defect Management
9 6 (9.38%) Migration
9 6 (9.38%) Scenario Testing
9 6 (9.38%) Stakeholder Management
9 6 (9.38%) System Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 10 (15.63%) SQL
2 6 (9.38%) C
3 5 (7.81%) COBOL
4 4 (6.25%) JavaScript
4 4 (6.25%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.56%) C#
5 1 (1.56%) C++
5 1 (1.56%) Java
5 1 (1.56%) PL/SQL
5 1 (1.56%) SAS Macro
5 1 (1.56%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 21 (32.81%) Security Cleared
2 17 (26.56%) SC Cleared
3 8 (12.50%) DV Cleared
4 7 (10.94%) Degree
4 7 (10.94%) ISTQB
5 2 (3.13%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.56%) CCNP
6 1 (1.56%) CCSE
6 1 (1.56%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.56%) HP APS
6 1 (1.56%) ISEB
6 1 (1.56%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 1 (1.56%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.56%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (14.06%) QA
2 7 (10.94%) SLA
3 6 (9.38%) ISO 8583
4 5 (7.81%) Data Quality
5 4 (6.25%) PCI DSS
6 1 (1.56%) GDPR
System Software
1 3 (4.69%) Active Directory
2 2 (3.13%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (3.13%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.56%) BitLocker
3 1 (1.56%) EMC RecoverPoint
3 1 (1.56%) Firmware
3 1 (1.56%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.56%) Microsoft App-V
3 1 (1.56%) Terminal Services
3 1 (1.56%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.56%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 15 (23.44%) HP ALM
2 6 (9.38%) SCCM
3 1 (1.56%) Ansible
3 1 (1.56%) Avamar
3 1 (1.56%) Control-M
3 1 (1.56%) EMC VPLEX
3 1 (1.56%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.56%) PaperCut
3 1 (1.56%) vCenter Server
3 1 (1.56%) vMotion
Vendors
1 27 (42.19%) Dell
2 18 (28.13%) Cisco
3 17 (26.56%) Apple
4 10 (15.63%) IBM
5 8 (12.50%) Microsoft
5 8 (12.50%) ServiceNow
6 5 (7.81%) Remedy
6 5 (7.81%) SAP
7 3 (4.69%) Oracle
8 2 (3.13%) 3PAR
8 2 (3.13%) Citrix
8 2 (3.13%) NetApp
8 2 (3.13%) VMware
9 1 (1.56%) Brocade
9 1 (1.56%) Google
9 1 (1.56%) Isilon
9 1 (1.56%) SimCorp
9 1 (1.56%) Splunk
9 1 (1.56%) Trend Micro
9 1 (1.56%) Veeam